{"id":877084,"date":"2026-04-07T03:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/877084\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:10:26","slug":"live-updates-iran-war-trump-threats-at-press-conference-tuesday-deadline-for-strait-of-hormuztrump-says-entire-country-of-iran-could-be-taken-out-if-no-deal-is-reached-by-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/877084\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran war; Trump threats at press conference, Tuesday deadline for Strait of HormuzTrump says \u2018entire country\u2019 of Iran could be taken out if no deal is reached by tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnngjtnb000f3b6szxxusfay@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Israel is ordering the residents of dozens of villages in southern Lebanon to leave their homes \u201cimmediately\u201d and flee north of the Zahrani River.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnngjx89000h3b6sinayxw61@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHezbollah activities are forcing the (IDF) to take strong action against them in those areas,\u201d IDF Arabic language spokesman Avichay Adraee wrote in a post on X, adding that the Israeli military \u201cdoes not intend to harm\u201d villagers.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnngjx89000i3b6s1imv4wao@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The order comes as Israeli politicians have floated increasingly far-reaching plans to destroy Lebanese villages along the border with Israel and expel their inhabitants. An Israeli military official told CNN last week that the IDF is considering a plan to destroy civilian infrastructure within 2 to 3 kilometers of the Israeli border to create a buffer between Lebanon and northern Israel.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnngjx89000j3b6sitpqxsnb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Lawmakers from Israel\u2019s far-right decried those plans as insufficient over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/05\/world\/live-news\/iran-war-us-trump-oil?post-id=cmnm0y4xk00003b6srbfi6jt7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demanding<\/a> that the military consider the wholesale expulsion of Lebanese civilians south of the Litani River and create a \u201cnew security border.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnnhpxad000o3b6smzfcz4wg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The order issued Monday appears to go further. All of the villages listed are north of the Litani.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnngjx89000k3b6sw3d8xse2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Nonetheless, the lawmakers\u2019 demands were nearly identical to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/31\/world\/live-news\/iran-war-us-trump-oil#cmnefgzw900023b6qj4kbcvij\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans outlined by Defense Minister Israel Katz<\/a> last month. Katz said that the Israeli military intends to destroy Lebanese villages and \u201cmaintain security control over the Litani area,\u201d barring the 600,000 Lebanese who fled north from returning to their homes \u201cuntil the safety and security of northern Israeli residents is ensured.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnngjx89000l3b6s1iql8gwp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The destruction will be \u201cin accordance with the Rafah and Khan Younis model in Gaza, in order to remove the threat to Israeli communities,\u201d Katz said, referring to two Palestinian cities that Israel bombed heavily during the war in Gaza.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnngjx89000m3b6sgrlwnvlo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked whether the order on Monday is related to Katz\u2019s comments, the IDF declined to comment.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel is ordering the residents of dozens of villages in southern Lebanon to leave their homes \u201cimmediately\u201d and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-877084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116361234069686079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}